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Answer 1

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Writing under the name of 'Diedrich Knickerbocker', Washington Irving aimed his political satire, at as diverse topics as political rivals such as; Thomas Jefferson, to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately.

Explanation:

Punctuation was added to the excerpt indicated so that it is possible to establish coherence and cohesion in the text.

A text without punctuation is prevented from providing a clear and understandable message, presenting a confusing and incoherent narrative. For this reason, in the excerpt above, commas were used to mark pauses in the text that must be taken into account when reading, in addition, commas were used to separate one sentence from another. The semicolon was used to express a longer pause and to show that a thought was previously completed, but not enough for the paragraph to be completed. The period at the end of the paragraph was used to show that the message has been fully completed and the paragraph has been completed.

Answer 2

Writing under the name of 'Diedrich Knickerbocker', Washington Irving aimed his political satire, at as diverse topics as political rivals such as; Thomas Jefferson, to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately.

Explanation:

Punctuations are the marks, such as full stops, commas, colons, semi colons, hyphens, brackets, exclamation marks , question marks, Apostrophes etc, that  are used to make a sentence more comprehensive and understandable.

Punctuations help bring out the meaning of the sentence clearly and fully to the readers.

Hyphens are used to join adjectives. Colons are used to connect two independent clauses. Full stops are used to show the sentence has come to an end.

Exclamation marks are used to denote the emotions of the person, while uttering the sentence.

So, punctuation marks are very important in writing a sentence without which a sentence does not have a clear meaning.